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e kept hearing and reading everywhere he went.
eadbelly’s “Midnight Special” had just started on
1e radio as Joe closed the front door.

He walked another ten blocks and reached
1e meeting hall where the Communist Party USA
nd the allied Progressive Labor Party were holding
1e launch of Progressive Masses. Joe took a seat
| the front row and was soon joined by Easton
IcTeak of the New York Chronicle.

First on the agenda was a movie showing the
onderful abundance produced by Stalin’s collective
rms, followed by a call for dedicated people to go
ver to Russia and help with the harvest. Then Jim
odner president of the CPUSA local, spoke about
ow the Soviet constitution recently proclaimed by
talin guaranteed more rights than any other such
ocument in the world. Next a folk singer performed
vo rousing pro-labor songs, and finally pro-party